Accuser Number Four, "Carolyn," dropped out of school in 7th grade. She told a heart-wrenching story of being addicted to drugs and alcohol and having an alcoholic mother. She been convicted of a couple of felonies. She had a child at 16.
This is a terrible story of sheer poverty.
She says she couldn’t pronounce Ghislaine’s first name, so she always called her "Maxwell."
Carolyn was interviewed by the FBI in 2007 and sued Sarah Kellen and Epstein in 2009. You can see already in the opening minutes of the defense cross, they are going to very much focus on Virginia Roberts, who was the person who introduced Carolyn to Epstein as well as to Kellen.
Carolyn gave a very graphic account of how, when Virginia Roberts took her over to Epstein’s for the first time, Roberts had told her to dress provocatively and then, in front of Carolyn in the massage room, Virginia was nude, according to Carolyn, and had sex with Epstein.
You can see the defense is going to highlight the inconsistencies between Carolyn's statements in 2007 and 2009 and what she is saying now.
But you can also see what the prosecution is doing: telling a story that is repeating itself. Even though there are inconsistencies in each of these witnesses, essentially there is a pattern emerging of how the abuse occurred.
And it all follows the pattern outlined by Dr. Lisa Rocchio about how predators groom their victims.

I wrote about that process following Dr. Rocchio's testimony last week: vickyward.substack.com/p/day-four-wha…

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8 Dec
My latest dispatch from the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial: heart-wrenching testimony from Accuser Number Four, increasingly combative exchanges between the prosecution and defense, and “an expletive that rhymes with ‘front.’” vickyward.substack.com/p/day-seven-an…
The prosecution said yesterday that they will rest—most likely by the end of Thursday. Now, that is quicker than most of us had thought.
It means that most of the government’s case is now already out there. Have they proven that Maxwell is guilty on all of the six counts she is charged with in terms of enabling Epstein to abuse and traffic underage girls—and done so beyond reasonable doubt?
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7 Dec
This morning in court, we were shown evidence from a hard drive that was taken by the FBI from Epstein’s home in 2019. From username “GMax” was a Word doc from Oct 2002 with what appears to me to be talking points about the nature of the relationship between Maxwell and Epstein.
It says they are “best friends” and insists that, though lots of people thought they were not a couple, they were in fact a couple for 11 years.
What I am wondering is if these are talking points that had possibly been prepared for me, as I was doing my reporting for Vanity Fair at that time.
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3 Dec
"Day Four: What the Butler Saw"

My latest dispatch from inside the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial: vickyward.substack.com/p/day-four-wha…
Longtime Epstein housekeeper Juan Alessi put Maxwell much closer to Epstein’s Palm Beach bedroom—literally—than anyone else in the witness box has so far.
Alessi’s testimony was most damning for Maxwell in that he clearly said he’d seen two females he thought were under-age: “Jane” and Virginia Roberts. He said both had frequently visited Maxwell and Epstein in Palm Beach and accompanied them on trips on Epstein’s private plane.
Read 15 tweets
2 Dec
Here’s the latest — my new dispatch from Day Three of the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial. vickyward.substack.com/p/maxwell-day-…
In the past two years while I’ve been researching “Chasing Ghislaine,” sources close to Maxwell’s defense team have told me consistently that they are unbothered by the fact that the Southern District of New York’s conviction rate is extraordinarily high—reportedly over 95%.
“I don’t care what the statistics are,” someone close to Maxwell and her lawyers told me nine months ago. “Ghislaine is innocent, and we will prove that.”

At the time, I thought this person was crazy. Now, however, I’m beginning to see why the defense appears so confident.
Read 6 tweets
30 Nov
I wrote about Day One of the Maxwell trial for my @SubstackInc newsletter. For that report, see my new column at “Vicky Ward Investigates.” 

For Day 2, here are some thoughts about what happened in the courtroom this morning. #GhislaineMaxwellTrial

vickyward.substack.com/p/notes-from-t…
So far, testimony given by Epstein pilot Larry Visoski seems much more beneficial to Maxwell’s defense than to the prosecution.
Visoski told jurors that in the thirty years he flew Epstein’s planes, he never once saw an underage woman who was not accompanied by a parent and he never once saw anybody having sex or any evidence of sex.
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29 Nov
I am thrilled to be announcing today the launch of an exciting new venture: my @SubstackInc newsletter entitled “Vicky Ward Investigates.” I hope you will join me by signing up.
vickyward.substack.com/p/welcome-to-v…
I’ve long been searching for an outlet with the editorial freedom @SubstackInc offers, and I am so excited about the access, immediacy, and transparency that Substack affords writers.
You can expect breaking news as I share from-the-ground items from my reporting. You’ll hear new stories about boldface names you think you know. From NYC real estate to Silicon Valley to the Beltway and beyond, I will provide the inside info that gets you behind the headlines.
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